Rolff’s playing, along with a deep knowledge of the tradition mixed with a personal taste for composition, became a landmark for many jazz lovers across Italy. In over 20 years of a music career, Massimiliano Rolff toured extensively Europe, U.S. Asia and Africa alongside some of the world’s finest jazz musicians and released 9 albums as a leader and more than 20 as sideman and co-leader. As a freelance double bass player in the past years he has performed in some of the most important clubs, festivals, theaters, and tv shows in Italy, Holland, France, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Germany, Bulgaria, Hungary, Israel, Egypt, Turkey, Argentina, Uruguay, China, Japan, Hong Kong, and USA with Steve Grossman, Scott Hamilton, Eliot Zigmund, Perico Sambeat, Jesse Davis, Dave Schnitter, Federico Britos, Phil Woods, Dave Kikoski, Peter King, Garrison Fewell, Herb Geller, Rachel Gould, Eric Legnini, Danny Grissett, Sangoma Everett, Andrea Dulbecco, Andy Gravish, Dado Moroni, Flavio Boltro, Paolo Damiani, Gabriele Mirabassi, Luca Begonia, Marco Tamburini, Gianpaolo Casati, Carlo Atti, Andrea Pozza, François Chassagnite, Claudio Chiara, Luca Santaniello, Karen Edwards, Johannes Faber, Emanuele Cisi, Enzo Zirilli, Jasper van’t Hof, Alessio Menconi and many others great musicians.